Trash Board Will Accept Bids to Haul Green Waste to Incinerator

Tulsa’s trash board moves ahead with a plan to pick up green waste at the curb and send it to the incinerator.

Matt Newman with Covanta gave the Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy board an overview of the burn plant’s pollutants output. He says it contributes a small proportion of Tulsa’s ozone-causing emissions, including nitrogen oxides, or NOx.

"Volatile organic compounds are 0.004 percent of the Tulsa regional airshed, and the NOx is 0.2 percent of the Tulsa regional emissions," Newman said. "That gives you some scope and scale."